The document summarizes technical details about the 2010 Haiti earthquake and subsequent relief efforts. It provides details on the magnitude and location of the earthquake, damage caused, medical and infrastructure challenges, and international aid responses in the initial days and weeks following the disaster. Key facts include over 200,000 deaths, massive destruction of buildings and hospitals, and a large-scale relief effort led by countries, NGOs, and technology/mapping coordination groups to provide medical care, shelter, food and clean water to millions affected.

1. Technical Research
2010 Haiti Earthquake
@CrisisCamp SHDH
Jan 17, 2010

2. 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Jan 12, 2010 Tue 21:53 UTC
(4:53 pm local time)
7.0-magnitude earthquake
Epicenter near Leogane 25
km (16 miles) west of capital
Earthquake occurred at a
depth of 13 km (8.1 mile)
On Enriquillo-Plantain Garden
fault system in the south
locked solid for 250 years

3. 2010 Haiti Earthquake
7.0 M Earthquake occurred
along a strike-slip fault
where one side of a vertical
slips horizontally past the
other
California’s San Andreas fault
is also characterized as
strike-slip

4. 2010 Haiti Earthquake
At least 33 aftershocks
14 of 33 aftershocks in magnitudes of 5.0
and 5.9
Estimated 3 million of Haitians are affected
Estimated 200,000 deaths exceeding Red
Cross estimates of 45,000-50,000
70,000 bodies are buried in mass graves
(30% of dead bodies)

5. 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Most hospitals in the area were destroyed
Structures & people on surface were
exposed to tremors since the quake is under
land and the fault is shallow
M 7.0 earthquake is 65 km (40 mile) long
with mean slip of 1.8 m (5.9 ft)

6. 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Recorded six aftershocks within 2 hours in
magnitudes of 5.9, 5.5, 5.1, 4.8, 4.5, 4.5
Within 9 hrs 26 afterpenisshocks of
magnitude >4.2 (12 of them >5.0)

7. 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Haiti has no building codes with low
construction standards
Some buildings were built on slopes with
insufficient foundations or steel
2 million Haitians live as squatters on land
they don’t own
suffers from shortages of fuel & potable
water even before earthquake

8. 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Lack of medical and rescue infrastructure
and personnel
Medical facilities are badly damaged
Many of the injured in the initial days after
the earthquake didn’t have access to health
care and died
Some reports indicated 250,000 Haitians
sustained injuries and one million Haitians
were left homeless

9. 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Haiti has virtually no heavy machinery to lift
tons of rubble
Red Cross’s forensic specialists are recovering
& identifying quake victims

10. 2010 Haiti Relief
Dominican Republic has sent eight mobile
medical units along with 36 doctors including
orthopedics, traumatologists,
anesthesiologists, and surgeons
Same government has dispatched 10 mobile
kitchens and 110 cooks who can prepare
100,000 meals per day

11. 2010 Haiti Relief
Qatar sent 50 tones of urgent relief
materials setting up field hospital
Israel established a field hospital near United
Nations building
China dispatched a chartered plane of 10
tons of tents, food, medical equipment,
sniffer dogs, 60-member earthquake relief
team

12. 2010 Haiti Relief
American Red Cross set a record of mobile donating
accepting $10 donations by cellular phone text
messages raising $7 million in 24 hours
OpenStreetMap improve mapping using post-
earthquake satellite photography provided by GeoEye
Ushahidi coordinated messages from multiple sites to
assist Haitians still trapped or get words to family
members of survivors
Red Cross site receive 5,000 registrations mostly from
US & Canada to find missing Haitians

13. 2010 Haiti Relief
Argentine Military Field Hospital was the only
one available until Jan 13, 2010
Doctors Without Borders operated out of two
hospitals treating about 500 people who
needed emergency surgery
Parking lot served as triage center
Wounded were forced to lie in tents for
treatment

14. 2010 Haiti Relief
By Jan 16, 2010 seven Field Hospitals had
been established with available rooms
without electricity
Most serious procedures involved caesarian
sections and amputations
A doctor from “Doctors Without Borders)
perform 400 amputations on patients who
had been trapped in buildings

15. 2010 Haiti Relief
Some medical teams ran out of supplies they
arrived with. Construct splints out of
cardboard while re-using latex gloves
Other rescue units are forced to withdraw
as night fell for security reasons
600 emergency flights had landed and 50
were diverted.
Before earthquake 380,000 orphans in Haiti

16. Relief Calculation Template
Individual needs at least 15 liters a day.
Sometimes one survive with 6 liters a day
for a limited amount of time
“Sphere” handbook provides guidelines for
how best to respond to humanitarian
emergencies
Local Assessment on shelter - count no. of
houses destroyed in a limited area and
extrapolate for whole affected area
Base on past experience on previous
earthquakes on media reports & info on the
ground

17. Haiti
Republic of Haiti
Caribbean country
Total Area: 27,751 sq. km
(10,714 sq mi)
Population: 10,033,000
Capital: Port-au-Prince
Currency: Gourde (HTG)
Official Languages: Haitian
Creole & French Time Zone: UTC-5
95% Black, 5% Mulatto & Internet TLD: .ht
White
Calling Code: 509

18. Haiti
Haiti is divided into ten
departments
departments are divided into
41 arrondissements
133 communes of 2nd & 3rd
Level administrative divisions

19. Haiti
! 1. Artibonite (Gonaïves)
2.! Centre (Hinche)
!3.! Grand'Anse (Jérémie)
!4.! Nippes (Miragoâne)
!5.! Nord (Cap-Haïtien)
!6.! Nord-Est (Fort-Liberté)
!7.! Nord-Ouest (Port-de-Paix)
!8.! Ouest (Port-au-Prince)
!9.! Sud-Est (Jacmel)
!10.!Sud (Les Cayes)

20. Haiti Environment
Deforestation & soil erosion has caused
periodic flooding & mudslides

21. Haiti Health
50% of children are unvaccinated
40% of population are access to basic health care
50% of deaths are related to 1) HIV /AIDS 2)
Respiratory infections 3) Meningitis 4) Diarrheal
diseases including cholera & typhoid
90% of children suffer from waterborne diseases &
intestinal parasites
5% of Adult is infected with HIV
Tuberculosis (TB) are ten times as high as other Latin
American countries
30,000 suffer from Malaria

22. Haiti Economy
Haiti is considered as the poorest country &
least developed in the Americas
Nominal GDP of 7.018 billion USD in 2009
GDP per capita of 790 USD
Most Haitians live on $2 or less per day
65.9% literacy rate is lowest in the region
Over 80% college graduates emigrated to US

23. Haiti Economy
66% Haitians work in agricultural sector in
small-scale subsistence farming
Mangoes & coffee are two most important
exports
Foreign aid is 30-40% of national
government’s budget (US, Canada, European
Union)

24. Haiti Education
15,200 primary schools, 90% non-public
67% primary school enrollment
<30% reach 6th grade
20% reach secondary school
Education system is based on French system

25. Haiti Population
50% of 10 Million Haitians are under 20 year
old
Highest fertility rate in Western Hemisphere

26. Red Cross Estimates
3 million Haitians will require aid ranging
from shelter to food and clean water for a
full year

27. References

28. Haiti Capital
Port-au-Prince
18° 32′ 0″ N, 72° 20′ 0″ W
18.533333, -72.333333
http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?
pagename=Haiti&params=18_32_N_72_20_W_type:country

29. Haiti Climate
Tropical Climate
Rainy season is in summer May-Jul
Rains last for an hr or two in the evening
Hurricane season is Jul-Oct
Winters Dec-Jan is dry
Day temperature 70s-80s F / 23-32 C
Night temperature 60s-70s F / 15-27C

30. Medical Relief Supplies
Antibiotics
IV solutions
Hospital supplies for patients with trauma
injuries
Bandages and other first aid materials
Pain relievers
Primary care medicines for children and
adults

31. Sphere Project
Humanitarian Charter &
Minimum Standards in
Disaster Response
2010 Revised Edition
http://www.sphereproject.org/content/view/530/302/lang,english/